{"id":3402,"date":"2014-01-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bonnier.com\/news\/life-sort-of-imitates-art\/"},"modified":"2014-01-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T00:00:00","slug":"life-sort-of-imitates-art","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.bonnier.com\/en\/news\/life-sort-of-imitates-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Sort of Imitates Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"initial\">Sweden\u2019s top series from <a href=\"\/en\/brands\/all\/tv4\">TV4<\/a>, Solsidan, which hilariously parodies the perils of keeping up with the Joneses in upper-middle-class suburban Stockholm, has gone meta.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, character Mickan Schiller wondered how hard it could be to write a children\u2019s book, but not surprisingly her attempts to get a book published by Bonnier failed. Luckily for fans, what didn\u2019t come true onscreen has come true in real life with the release of <em>Aja Baja Vita Soffan<\/em> \u2013 published by none other than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bonniercarlsen.se\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bonnier Carlsen<\/a>. The book, which roughly translates to <em>Don\u2019t Touch the White Sofa<\/em>, is a picture book by \u201cMickan\u201d that succinctly conveys her true talent in dealing with her own children, who tend to clash with her expensive white furniture.<\/p>\n<p>The book is the brainchild of the multi-talented Josephine Bornebusch, who plays the social-climbing and not terribly bright Mickan on the show. Bornebusch, who wrote the book herself, is also one of the writers for the show \u2013 the writer in fact who gave the character her, er, authorial aspirations. And it was Bornebusch who approached the publisher with the idea of doing the book.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so proud of Mickan, who managed to write so many words. I would\u2019ve never thought she could manage it,\u201d says Bornebusch, tongue planted firmly in cheek. \u201cIt\u2019s so great when two different worlds meet. When a TV character gets to write (more or less) a book about how to forbid children from messing up a house that doesn\u2019t even exist, it adds that surreal something extra to make it particularly great, I think!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the misguided Mickan, Bornebusch\u2019s own writing ambitions are considerably more serious, to say the least. Her first novel, for young adults, will be published later this year by Bonnier Carlsen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be able to release my first novel, in August, feels completely wild and not quite real yet,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019ll believe it when I actually see it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweden\u2019s top series from TV4, Solsidan, which hilariously parodies the perils of keeping up with the Joneses in upper-middle-class suburban Stockholm, has gone meta. Last season, character Mickan Schiller wondered how hard it could be to write a children\u2019s book, but not surprisingly her attempts to get a book published by Bonnier failed. Luckily for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3403,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"tags":[1091,265,639,508,516,235,242,86],"class_list":["post-3402","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-bonnier-books-en","tag-bonnier-carlsen","tag-books","tag-josephine-bornebusch","tag-solsidan","tag-sweden","tag-tv","tag-tv4"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bonnier - Life Sort of Imitates Art<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bonnier.com\/en\/news\/life-sort-of-imitates-art\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bonnier - Life Sort of Imitates Art\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sweden\u2019s top series from TV4, Solsidan, which hilariously parodies the perils of keeping up with the Joneses in upper-middle-class suburban Stockholm, has gone meta. 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